Still no TV, and I have to say I've barely noticed. It's interesting that I used to think "How could I manage without a TV?" I mean, I really thought it would be a colossal struggle to cope without being able to watch a repeat of QI and a repeat of Men Behaving Badly per evening, plus a history documentary on the rare occasions that it's not about Nazis or the ancient Egyptians.
For once I'm not exaggerating for effect - that's pretty much my erstwhile TV diet. No addiction to soaps or any other genre. I don't like to waste money on buying DVDs since I'll only watch them a couple of times, yet also don't like to waste money on renting DVDs. I displayed constant disgruntlement with the monotony of what's repeated on the cable channels and the unsatisfactoriness of what's on the terrestrials. When some promising-looking new series came along you could trust me to forget its name, overlook it in the listings and never see it. I probably spent nearly the same amount of time scouring the listings for something worth watching as actually viewing. That's how keen I was to find an excuse for flopping sofa-wards and putting my brain and body into neutral.
And yet it's been so easy in a world without TV. What I'm left with is the thought that if it was so easy to let go of something that I seemed so terminally attached to, what else could I relinquish with amazing ease?
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